Miller and Modigliani also studied dividend policy and determined that in their world of perfect capital markets (no taxes, no bankruptcy costs, no asymmetric information) that dividend policy DOES matter.

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When a firm is young and growing, managers tend to have high dividend payout ratios in an attempt to encourage investors to buy the stock.

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Equity provides more financial flexibility for a firm than debt.

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Issuing debt rather than equity will automatically increase a firm's EPS and EBIT.

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Depending on the firm's current capital structure, as well as the capital structure following today's financing decision, the firm may be implicitly deciding on future financing as well. True

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For an all-equity firm, the cost of equity is equal to the overall cost of capital.

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Issuing equity automatically hurts existing shareholders.

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If bond and stock markets are efficient, then the timing of when to issue debt or equity should not matter.

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A point to keep in mind is that financial managers should consider taking less financial risk when operating risk is high, but may consider taking more financial risk when operating risk is low.

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Based solely on risk considerations, a mixed debt and equity firm does not have to worry about any financial obligations related to creditors.

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